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TRC Weekly Bulletin – w/c 12th May 2025  

TRC Weekly Bulletin – w/c 12th May 2025  

Thursday Club Night Leaders 

15th  May . Walking – Val / 5k – Harriet F / 10 min – Arthur R / 9 min – Lizzie W / 8 min – Mel W/ 7 min – Paul H 

22nd May. Walking – Val / 5k – Caron H / 10 min – Suzy C / 9 min – Rob W / 8 min – Moray S/ 7 min – Nick W 

Tea Rota   

15/05 Sarah Newnes; 22/05 No tea – Thornbury Cricket Club; 29/05 tba; 05/06 Laura W; 12/06 tba; 19/06 No tea – Thornbury 10K 

We need some more Members to step-up to do Tea on a Thursday – looking for cover as from early May. 

Results:  

03/05 Among Park Run results Ben Bohane was 1st in at Thornbury in 17:46 

To make sure your results are included contact Mel Lloyd at results@thornburyrunningclub.co.uk. 

All results are on the members results page on the club website. 

All club Park Run results are also on the ParkRun Results page on the club website. 

Reminders:.  

  • Thursday 22nd May – AGM (20:00) and Run & Rehydrate. Thornbury CC 19:00 
  • Thursday 19th June – Thornbury 10K  19:30 
  • Thursday 3rd July. Room not available. Meet top car park ready to run at 19:00 
  • Saturday 5th July. Cotswold Way Relay 
  • Thursday 10th July. Room not available. Meet top car park ready to run at 19:00 

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Thornbury 10K Road Race – Thursday 19th June 2025 

The second of the events in the Club race series will be happening near mid-summer’s longest day again.  As ever, we are looking for volunteers to help run the event.  If you can please sign up via this Google form, that would be much appreciated.  A separate email will be sent as well.  

https://forms.gle/MAYLbjU7jzZ8KhsY9 

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  1. Club Captain 

As you will have seen in previous bulletins, Nick and Mel have now stepped down from their roles as Club Captains. As such, we now have nobody to host our weekly Thursday club runs, which represents a poor reflection of the club to new and existing members alike.  
We are still looking for one or two of you to step into their shoes, and take on the Captain role to keep the club ticking over. No experience is necessary, and the role isn’t particularly onerous and largely entails introducing Thursday night runs and sharing notices, organising the leader’s rota, organising the club championships (which Nick is willing to help with) and generally celebrating the individual and team success at TRC. If you are interested, please do let Nick know and he will gladly talk you through the role.   

2. TRC Charity Donation (revised details) 

We are still seeking nominations from the Membership for the choice of TRC Charity for the coming year 2025-26. Please submit your nominations to the Secretary, Nigel Hale as soon as possible. All Nominations submitted need a brief justification. secretary@thornburyrunningclub.co.uk 

3. 2024/5 AGM and New committee for 2025/6 – Club Constitution and Club Rules 

The Committee has fixed the date of the AGM for the Financial Year 2024/5 – this will be on Thursday 22nd May and will be at Thornbury CC and we will hold the AGM after a Run & Rehydrate. Drinks and Pizza for those who stay on for the AGM. 

The Committee does not envisage any chance to the Club Constitution or Club Rules for 2025/6. The Committee also confirmed that there will be no change to the annual subs for 2025/6 and the subsidy for joining England Athletics will remain in place. 

If any Member has any issues to raise for the AGM please contact the Secretary Nigel Hale secretary@thornburyrunningclub.co.uk 

4. Tuesday Coaching 

We had several 5k people who came to Tuesday Coaching this week but some of them hadn’t realised that they were allowed to! Despite it being in the welcome emails.  

Please let people in your groups know that it is for ALL members, inclusive and not scary! Let Carol Mosses know if they need to be added to the Tuesday WhatsApp if you are not able to add them. 

Interval Training.  We have 3 qualified EA Coaches who lead an interval training session at various locations. We have a WhatsApp group for those who attend the Tuesday sessions and a message is sent each Tuesday morning confirming the location and time of the session for that week. Types of session include: 

  •      Kenyan Diagonal
  •      12 * 400m repetitions
  •      Pyramid sessions
  •      Hill efforts
  •      ‘Meet & greet’ session

5. Pete Mainstone Challenge – Next Event Hogweed Trot 2nd June 

Its coming soon  – Another club night out – The next event for the Pete Mainstone challenge is the Hogweed Trot on Monday 2nd June 2025 @ 7.00 PM in Yate. 

A great local run with beers and cheers provided at the finish by TRC 

Course Map here:- https://hogweedtrotters.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Hogweed-Trot-course-map.pdf 

You can enter here:- https://www.fullonsport.com/event/hogweed-trot-10k-2025/profile 

The club will also subsidise members entries by £10 provided that they finish the race and Thornbury appears against their name in the results. There is always somewhere on an entry page to indicate your club so just look around for it.  If you have already entered as unattached you will need to contact the organisers and ask them to put your club in. 

Enter now and come join in the fun. 

6. Nick Williams’ Cotswold Way Challenge 100km 

Some of you may be aware that my Dad was recently diagnosed (in December 2024) with Multiple Myeloma, which is a cancer of the plasma cells in the bone marrow. 

Sadly, he passed away last Monday (7th April) after the cancer became more and more aggressive. 

Before he passed away, I had vowed to run the above event to raise funds for the charity that is seeking to raise awareness of this awful condition, and also to research the disease and medical advancements that may be able to help sufferers enter into remission, or even to find a cure. I will now be running the event on 21st June in memory of my Dad. 

The charity is Myeloma UK (https://www.myeloma.org.uk/), and I would invite you to take a brief look into their website, which will provide an insight into the disease and that if you are able to, to support me in raising funds, however great or small, to support the charity via this link:- https://www.justgiving.com/page/nick-williams-1 

I appreciate that I often run events of this nature, however this is double the distance that I would ordinarily choose to run, and it will obviously be a very emotional day. 

Many thanks, Nick 

7. Cotswold Relay teams for Saturday 2nd July 

Thank you to everyone who signed up to join in the Cotswold relay 2025 on Sat July 5th – a great pre curser to the TRC summer festivities on the Sunday. 

We have confirmed entries for two TRC teams  – 1 Open team  – (Quickthorns) and 1 ladies  (The Prickles). This is Thornbury’s first ever all girls team and we may yet need some extras! 

The legs were allocated in the order of sign up  – but if you are a reserve the chances of being needed are very high so please please do keep the date free 

We are also happy to have some extra names on the reserve list just in case! It would also be great if one member of each team could volunteer to be a captain just to coordinate inter team coms and photos. 

The teams and legs are below  – if anyone has any queries or complaints please see Jo Plumbley or message her through the WhatsApp group. 

Open  – Quickthorns 

Leg
1 –     Ross Whiting
2 –     Ollie Brown
3 –     George Evans
4 –     Nathan Darkin
5 –     Chris Foley
6 –     Adrian Wombwell
7-     Jim Godden
8-     Kevin Cundy
9 –     Nick Williams
10-    James Marshall 

Reserves – Nick Langridge, Alex Golding, John Evans, Arthur Renshaw, Kevin Arnold 

Prickles 

Leg
1 –     Mel Wilson
2 –     Clare Watt
3 –     Lizzie Williams
4 –     Jo PLumbley
5 –     Colette Jackson
6 –     Laura Orna
7-     Sarah Newnes
8-     Hannah Hamilton
9 –     Ros Rowland
10-    Zoe RImmer 

Reserves  – Bethan Littley, Judy Mills 

8. Upcoming local races – don’t forget to enter as Thornbury Running Club 

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